Results for Google

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on August 22nd, 2007:

• USB Powered Mini Greenhouse – Features an adjustable growth light and an easy view window that offers maximum plant protection.
• Amazon forest carved up in resettlement scam – Rather than moving communities onto land that has already been deforested Incra has been allocating tracts of land that are still part of the rainforest.
• reddit media: intelligent fun online – Monitors reddit?s front page, collects picture & video links, and builds an archive of them over time.
• Monster attack steals user data – US job website Monster.com has suffered an online attack with the personal data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen, says a security firm.
• Robots Can Be Friendly, Groovin?: Max-Powered Keepon and Beatbots – The Keepon is a cute, yellow robot that dances to music you may have seen bopping on YouTube. It shows how subtle changes could make robotics friendlier in the near future.
• Deezer – The first global website for music on demand with no restrictions: listening to all kinds of music is now free, unlimited, legal and accessible to all Internet users via a Web browser.
• Google Earth Shows Real-Time Traffic – This has been achieved by adding a Traffic layer in Google Earth. Once you?ve enabled this feature, you?ll see a real-time picture of traffic and conditions.
• SimpleTEXT: a cellphone enabled performance – SimpleTEXT is a collaborative audio/visual public performance that relies on audience participation through input from mobile devices such as phones, PDAs or laptops.
• Lee Broom – The application of neon elements to the outlines of the six hand-carved Mahogany pieces “haloes the delicate lines of the traditional furniture whilst casting deep reflections in their richly lacquered surfaces.”

When you use Google Search’s I’m feeling lucky you can get some funny results.

Google Search H4x0r edition

The above H4x0r edition of Google Search can be found by using the keywords “google l33t” and clicking the I’m feeling lucky button.

Hongkiat lists 11 keywords which get you some results you might not have seen before.

Google is now offering more storage for photos and messages.

From the info page:

Google now offers a way to purchase more storage space to use with some Google services (currently Gmail and Picasa Web Albums). This extra storage acts as overflow when you run out of free storage space in either service. If you’ve filled your free storage (2.8 GB and counting for Gmail or 1 GB for Picasa Web Albums), you’ll automatically use your purchased space to store more pictures and messages up to your new storage limit.

The additional storage can be purchased, starting at $20/year for 6GB.

Google Accounts – Purchase additional storage

Visit Google for more information.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on August 9th, 2007:

• I’m Elton Johning Today – We’re pleased at CDM to introduce a new verb: to Elton John will hereby mean to unplug from the Web in order to do creative work.
• Largest-known planet befuddles scientists – The largest planet ever discovered is also one of the strangest and theoretically should not even exist, scientists say.
• Autodesk AliasStudio Personal Learning Edition – Autodesk® AliasStudio&trade Personal Learning Edition is a special version providing free access for non-commercial use. Autodesk AliasStudio Personal Learning Edition offers almost every feature included in the full commercial version of Autodesk® Studio
• Woodstock for sale – Mr. Yasgur, now a cultural icon, allowed 40 acres of his 1,100 acre farm in upstate New York, to be used for Woodstock, thus making the musical and cultural event of the century possible.
• Google News to add user comments – We wanted to give you a heads-up on a new, experimental feature we’ll be trying out on the Google News home page. Starting this week, we’ll be displaying reader comments on stories in Google News, but with a bit of a twist…
• Cornell University becomes newest partner in Library Project – “In its quest to be the world’s land-grant university, Cornell strives to serve the scholarly and research needs of those beyond the campus,” said Cornell President David J. Skorton.
• HTTP errors – Inspired by Goopymart’s “Teh Internets”, here’s an illustrated set of common http error codes for use on your blog or site or what have you.
• Memorial Sculptures – One-of-a-kind, hansculpted, newborn art dolls, created by artist J. Stocks-Dearborn.
• Boycott Regal Cinemas – Free Culture @ NYU is joining the call for a chain wide boycott of Regal Cinemas over their draconian punishment of a 19 year-old girl caught taping 20 seconds of the Transformers film.

Google has launched Powerpoint Preview for Gmail.

Gmail users can use Google’s Powerpoint competitor through a View as Slideshow feature.

Gmail Powerpoint Preview (image by Google Blogoscope)

From Mashable

When you receive an email with a Powerpoint attached, you can view the slideshow in a new window – no need to download and open in Powerpoint itself.

Gmail already provides options for opening Word and Excel files in Google Docs and Spreadsheets.

Link via Mashable

Google Gears (beta) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality.

Google Gears (beta) website screenshot

Gears provides three key features (from the developer knowledge base):

• A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
• A database, to store and access data from within the browser
• A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background

The first application you can use offline is Google Reader. With Google Gears you can download the 2000 most recent unread posts and read them offline.

Very handy when you’re on the road and don’t have any internet.

Link via Download Squad